| Geoffrey Lehmann |
Geoffrey Lehmann is an Australian poet, children's writer, and tax lawyer and was the first Australian poet to be published by the London publishing house Faber and Faber. He also writes as a literary reviewer for The Australian newspaper and his poems are widely published, most recently in The New Yorker. |
| Simon West |
Simon West is also a widely published poet. His first collection of poetry First Names was published with Puncher and Wattmann in Sydney in 2006. It was short-listed for the NSW Premier’s Prize in 2007 and won the William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. In 2004 he held an Australian Young Poets Fellowship. |
| Gail Jones |
Novelist (three times shortlisted for Miles Franklin), Professor of Writing in the Writing and Society Research School at the University of Western Sydney and deservedly, won a gaggle of prizes for Sixty Lights, including the 2005 ALS medal and she is a shortlisted for everything she writes. |
| Peter Rose |
Peter Rose is the author of a family memoir, Rose Boys (2001), which won the National Biography Award in 2003. His latest novel is Roddy Parr (Fourth Estate, 2010). He has also published four poetry collections, and his new collection, a book of elegies, will appear in 2012. Since 2001 he has been Editor of Australian Book Review. |
| Paul Carter |
Historian, writer, philosopher and artist, he is well-known for books such as The Road to Botany Bay and Material Thinking, and for his public space designs, notably at Federation Square. His latest book, Ground Truthing, explores the underlay of stories that give the Victorian Mallee its unique identity. |
| Anna Goldsworthy |
Anna Goldsworthy is an Australian classical pianist and writer. Her memoir Piano Lessons was released in Australia (Black Inc) in 2009 and in the US by St Martin's Press (Macmillan) in 2010. She is Artistic Director of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, a Board Member of the Australian Book Review and a founding member of the Seraphim Trio. |
| Elliot Perlman |
Elliot Perlman won The Age Short Story Award in 1994 for The Reasons I Won't Be Coming. In 1998, his first novel Three Dollars was published and won The Age Book of the Year and the Betty Trask Prize. His second novel Seven Types of Ambiguity was shortlisted in 2004 for the Miles Franklin Award and his fourth novel will be released in 2011. |
| Shane Maloney |
Shane Maloney is the creator of the popular Australian crime novel series - the Murray Whelan novels, (Text Publishing). The Brush-Off won the Ned Kelly Prize for Crime Fiction in 1996, was shortlisted for the Premiers Literary Award and set as an English text for Victorian secondary students. In 2009, he was presented with the Crime Writers' Association of Australia Lifetime Achievement Award. |
| Morag Fraser |
Morag Fraser AM is Adjunct Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University. From 1991 until 2003 she was the editor of Eureka Street magazine and her journalism career spans 35 years. She is a Miles Franklin Literary Award judge, chair of Australian Book Review and in 2004 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia, for services to journalism . |
| Paul Kane |
Paul Kane has published ten books, including four collections of poems. Among his awards are a Fulbright grant and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at Yale University and Monash University and is presently Professor of English at Vassar College. Together with his wife, Tina, he splits his time between New York and rural Victoria. |
| Trevor Hogan |
Trevor Hogan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Deputy Director of the Thesis Eleven Centre of Cultural Sociology and Director of Philippines Australia Studies Centre at La Trobe Bundoora. With Beilharz he is coordinating editor of international social theory journal Thesis Eleven: critical theory and historical sociology published by Sage, London, New Delhi and LA. |
| Peter Beilharz |
Peter Beilharz is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Thesis Eleven Centre of Cultural Sociology at La Trobe Bundoora . He has published 23 books , most recently Socialism and Modernity . He has taught at La Trobe Mildura since 2002 , and with Hogan has regularly brought overseas and other visitors to Mildura across that period . |
Professor
Alan Frost |
Professor Alan Frost’s major areas of scholarly interest have been the European exploration of the Pacific Ocean in the eighteenth century; the British convict colonization of New South Wales; and the pastoral age in Australia. He has published widely and his most recent works are Botany Bay: The Real Story (2011) and The First Fleet: The Real Story (2011). |
| Stefano de Pieri |
Stefano de Pieri was born in Treviso, near Venice. He migrated to Australia in 1974 and went on to Melbourne University where he graduated in Politics and Italian Studies. Based in Mildura, Victoria, the celebrated chef, author, raconteur and TV presenter has been described as a Renaissance man. While his passion for food is unquestionable, his fervour for politics, the arts and the environment run just as deep. |
| Judith Brett |
Judith Brett is the Head of the School of Social Sciences and a Professor of Politics at La Trobe. She has taught politics here since she joined La Trobe in 1989 after working as a journalist and literary editor. She has published extensively on Australia's twentieth century political history, with prize winning books on Robert Menzies and on the history of the Australian liberalism. She has just completed a Quarterly Essay. Called Fair Share: Country and City in Australia, it will be published in June. |
| John Martin |
John Martin has consulted in
strategy, leadership and management
to government across Australia, Asia,
the Pacific and South Africa and
prestigious international organisations
including the World Bank. He has
published widely in areas such as
public policy, health education,
management accounting, resource
economics, regional development
and sustainable community. |
| Jamie King Holden |
Jamie King-Holden lives in
Geelong and studies literature
at Deakin University. Her first
book of poetry, Chemistry, was
published by Whitmore Press in
2010. Her poetry has appeared in
Antipodes, Dotdotdash, Eureka
Street, Ekleksographia and Verandah.
She was shortlisted for the Gwen
Harwood Poetry Prize in 2010, and
co-edits the literary zine Windmills. |
